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    Don Juan: His Own Version: A Novel
    Don Juan: His Own Version: A Novel
    Don Juan: His Own Version: A Novel
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    Don Juan: His Own Version: A Novel

    By Peter Handke

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    Nobel Prize winner Peter Handke offers a wry and entertaining take on history's most famous seducer as he takes a respite from his stressful existence

    Don Juan's story—"his own version"—is filtered through the consciousness of an anonymous narrator, a failed innkeeper and chef, into whose solitude Don Juan bursts one day. On each day of the week that follows, Don Juan describes the adventures he experienced on that same day a week earlier. The adventures are erotic, but Handke's Don Juan is more pursued than pursuer. What makes his accounts riveting are the remarkable evocations of places and people, and the nature of his narration. Don Juan: His Own Version is, above all, a book about storytelling and its ability to burst the ordinary boundaries of time and space.

    In this brief and wry volume, Peter Handke conjures images and depicts the subtleties of human interaction with an unforgettable vividness. Along the way, he offers a sharp commentary on many features of contemporary life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateFeb 15, 2010
    ISBN9781429936347
    Don Juan: His Own Version: A Novel
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    Peter Handke

    Peter Handke was born in Griffen, Austria, in 1942. His many novels include The Goalie’s Anxiety at the Penalty Kick, A Sorrow Beyond Dreams, My Year in the No-Man’s Bay, and Crossing the Sierra de Gredos, all published by FSG. Handke’s dramatic works include Kaspar and the screenplay for Wim Wenders’s Wings of Desire. Handke is the recipient of many major literary awards, including the Georg Büchner, Franz Kafka, and Thomas Mann Prizes and the International Ibsen Award. In 2019, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored the periphery and the specificity of human experience.”

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      Having a special interest in anything to do with Don Giovanni (per Mozart) and related works, I had to read this, but the ideas Handke has about this archetypal figure don't seem to be worked out as coherently and thus as convincingly as they might be. The Don Juan story seems to me to be more about those with whom he has liaisons, so the focus on the man himself is perhaps the problem for me here.

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